they built roads. they sewed clothes. they built roads is in san francisco. this one, i have seen them on sidewalks in san francisco. this is on a retains wall in crocket. they are very seldom markers. cw a doesn't. pw a, almost never. not nearly commiserate with what they were doing. that's one of the restrooms in golden gate park. that's a plaque, carefully hidden. the gardeners prune the vine so you can have a chance of finding it. here's one at park and mont clar. they are using a facility that was built by that. finally, the public works is not well known, but should be. they gave grants and loans for dams and sewage. sewage treatment. airports et cetera. hopkins couldn't stand each other. and were constantly battling. they kicked the construction industry back to good health. the upper right one is the alameda park station. they could not aid the private agencies. alameda had its own electrical system. these are various projects. los angeles storm drain system. they raised the dam. your water is a product of pw a. they built the sacramento water reservo

this house hasçó been settling since it was built the last ten years.d in the middle around three irjs. you can see settlement by looking at the -- if you were able to get inside you would see the foundation cracking. if you went into the finished mortion of the house you can see cracks in the wall you can put your hand in because it wasñr built on an oold garbage dump. >> we're talking about this on i theoretical issue. sit okay to build? is the richmond a good place. we have to say are you on top of an old farm pond or creek or garbage dump? it can have profound impacts in the settlement over long term and if there's an earthquake, that can amplify the ground shaking; is that right? >> absolutely. it can affect the behavior of the home. one of the things pat brought up is the wide garbage door opening i guess it's an issue you guys call soft story? >> exactly. >> what is that? >> it means the upper floors are rigid and in an earthquake the building will wanted to drift sideways a certain amount. if the upper floor the rigid and it doesn't occur there,

housing built by fees offer target specific regulations. housing units built between 2003 to 2010 with affordable housing fees. many of these units also target and the chronically homeless. the field of housing in its debt to be smaller than inclusion area that's, and more than half of the and it's hard to or more bedrooms while 2/3 of feed-built housing are single units. housing built with affordable housing fees tend to provide rental use met -- rental units. inclusion area housing can be built on side of market rate developments or other offsides but nearby locations. they can be found in 26 different neighborhoods while housing built with these are concentrated in six neighborhoods. public financing varies by year but has decreased by 23% in fiscal year 2007-2008 through 2010-2011. the city refund affordable housing fees in 2008-2009 as well as 2009-2010. it has been the most stable source of revenue. and the redevelopment agency allocated up to 40% for affordable housing each year. still, the city will lose up to $46 million a year in

it was built by scots, from scotland, brought from edinburgh and the highlands. we know a lot about them. they had all worked directly or indirectly for the adam brothers in the stylish restrained neoclassical style. washington didn't want any of that. and he wanted all the carvings. it was carved, carved, carved, and very out of style for the builders. but their custom in edinburgh was to whitewash buildings when they finished them. and the whitewash got in all the nooks and crannies. and the rest would eventually wear off. so when there was a freeze, the little hose wouldn't hold water. so it wouldn't crack. so they whitewashed the white house in 1797, when it was just about finished on the outside and it was called the white house when it was whitewashed. but it was actually painted. not till after the war of 1812, when it got a permanent paint job. and it got painted. by lincoln's time, there were 30-some-odd coats of paint on the white house, and lincoln had the south front painted. the south front that you see in the illustration and that you're going to se

these types of units have been built in other cities. in seattle, for example, there is a 150 square foot minimum living area provision. there have been several efficiency unit projects built. many of them have been built near the university of washington. presumably they're very popular with students. in san francisco there are very few dedicated student housing units. these types of units seem like a very logical fit. while there is growing interest in these units on the private side, most of the ones built to date in san francisco have been built by non-profit housing developers. these are high-quality projects like the plaza apartments. there are also some under construction at over street. these are housing units for people with special needs, youth aging out of the foster care system, formerly homeless individuals. the change that this legislation makes will make every housing dollar go further. we think that that is a very positive change. i want to point out that these small units are often supplemented by a generous common areas

we want the hospital to be built, but it to be built right. they are not going about it the right way. it is up to you to make sure that things go the right way. not having them under cut employees and the neighborhood and everything. thank you. >> how are you doing, commissioners? i am a san francisco resident. i am a member of 1 04. my wife worked at cpmc for four years. i attend a program designed to train and put san francisco residents to work in the construction field. i got an opportunity to join a great company. i recently became an apprentice local hire is important because it is important for families and it keeps the money into the community. what good is local hire if there is no work? cpmc will be able to continue to provide health care to san franciscans. the new building will be seismically safe. we need to keep the jobs in san francisco. this project will allow us to do so. that is why we need the city to approve the rebuild of cpmc. it will create more opportunities and more programs just to give people out of work and people

at the same time we wanted to get to know who the people were that built the ship. what were some of the concerns they had? and in our research we found out there would be even more amazing that in the days that followed the titanic disaster there were other people but were concerned. there were other people were worried that they built a week ship. >> we are giving away all the secrets before leggett to talk. >> about two and a half years ago i was working my way through a biography of the jacques cousteau and i got a call from a fellow that said they've got this incredible story and i said what's the story about and they said titanic and i said o.k. i'm going now. i checked into it and i found out that only more words had been written about jesus and the civil war than had been written about titanic and i wasn't on the mood to get on apply all and i said who are these guys? there's a great book about a submarine found off the coast of new jersey and its called shadow diverse. the second to the last thing i want to do is write son of shadow divers that sounds like

maybe a playground for a swimming pool will be built. i would like that.nd the mayor hopes that primarily the plant will create new jobs in the region. >> almost 5000 people are expected to work for the plant during the peak construction period. in the long term, the facility is expected to create around 800 jobs. >> that would mean almost full employment for the economically depressed village. >> if the government really wants to build a nuclear power plant, they should build it here. we have all the right prerequisites, and the environment here is ruined anyway, so it will not make a difference. >> but not everyone is as welcoming. this baltic sea resort town is considered an alternate location for the plant, but the many hotels here fear it would drive away visitors. hotel owners say a nuclear facility in the region would be disastrous. >> there is no rational way of saying this. more than 90% of the people here live from tourism. we are all really scared that no one will want to spend their vacation here. a proper holiday atmosphere and relaxation simp

a monument was unveiled in belfast, northern ireland, where the "titanic" was built.t city has jim maceda reports, sees "titanic" playing an increasingly important role in its own fortunes. >> reporter: belfast is under siege, from tour boats to teddy bears, even queen victoria has been hit by "titanic" fever. and yuna reilly from the "titanic" society couldn't be more pleased. >> the focus of the world is an eye on belfast. final lie she has got her correct place in the "titanic" story. >> reporter: it was in belfast that the "titanic" was conceived and built, a cape canaveral for the space shuttle of its day, but that pride turned to shock just five days into "titanic's" maiden voyage. >> the men in the shipyard who built it, really hard characters, they broke down and cried and sobbed like small kids. >> reporter: more than 1,500 perished, including dozens from belfast. for generations after the disaster, what had been the living symbol of this city's can-do spirit became the "t" word. it's as if "titanic" had been airbrushed from history. other disasters followed,

a new white house was built inside of them. those floors lincoln had tried went to fort myers to landfill. truman was no antiquarian, but he deeply believed that the president should remain in the white house. and when the work was finished, he ordered that the room where lincoln's office had been be restyled the lincoln bedroom and furnished with objects lincoln had used. truman was very loyal to those walls. he was walking around with john hershey one day, and they were about to chip a window, a great big window in the blue room, and carry in a bulldozer and a dump truck. and he said stop, you'll not. and he insisted those be taken down. the bulldozer and the dump truck were taken down, taken in and rebuilt and dug the cellars beneath the white house. so he was very serious about those walls. i have studied and written about the white house for 30 or more years. when asked last spring to speak about the white house to this group of lincoln experts, i concluded that what you would want from me is details about the white house

and when it was built, a lot more wood was used in it. over the years, everything has to be done quickly at the white house because it's a business house. it's not a museum and it's both. but charles mckim when he did the work for theodore roosevelt, he they waed to enlarge the state dining room so it would seat 100. so rather than going into the structure, when he for the supporting partition out, he took tyrods and screwed into the wooden structure of the attic. like those stars you see on the outside of buildings here? that's how he supported the thing. well, it was by truman's time it was like a big sandwich being squashed. so structurally, you know, and chases were cut through timbers and all sorts of stuff. truman's objective was to keep the president in the white house. it was the symbol, and that's how they -- well, okay. anything else? sure. >> thank you for a wonderfully educational and enjoyable presentation. >> thank you. >> very nicely presented. i have a question about the earthquake and the city of washington. i know some p

the men tended to be built like cross-country runners. they were not built like gym rats. or football players or weight lifters. they had to do a lot of long distance endurance running. because of tuckahoe, this is what the inside of a tuber looks like. and because eric's hands were so roughened from use, he was the -- the head honcho in the indian village at jamestown settlement in those years, he didn't feel it at all. when i touched that thing, any part of it, my hands burned, terrible stuff. takes a lot of processing. but the thing is, you're able to get it year-round. and you memorize where it is when the leaves are up. you can spot where it has been, even during the wintertime. this is a tuckahoe bed in halfway creek. i took it illegally from the colonial parkway bridge without getting caught. in the winter. anything for science. but there's all kinds of riches of food down there, if you know how to prepare the tubers once you get them. that meant in turn, historians take note, that anybody with this kind of resources in the bread basket marshes was going to be impos

it was built by an drew jackson for his race horses. is the south front of the house in the distance. and the temporary fences and this is where the horses were. the reason it burned so fast was the lantern on the roof. and it acted as a chimney and burned the house the building down. another relatively new peicture is this one which most people think is lincoln out on the north driveway. can't tell, but here is a little boy and he was out there all the time. the rail that go you see beyond that is a 14 foot drop that served the basement. all of these railings were put in, in the 1830s. the lamps were put there in the 1850s by pierce. all of what you see stunned, that whole top of the portico which you usually find is wood. but it is not, it is all stone. it was used for nothing in lincoln's time. it was a barn. the only non picture of the east room is this one. this came from a flea market in maryland. but, you had to piece it together. the ceiling was painted and the chandeliers came in from jackson and were made into gas by polk. it

the built-in light also helps you out during the day.proves the the screens visibility when used in broad daylight. what took so long to have been e-reader with a built- in light? the gray scale technology is very high tech and it has not been easy to add eight light and maintain the quality. the quality of this screen is easy and comfortable on the ice. barnes and noble is the first to get one of the market. amazon.com apple, sony and everyone else will have to get one on the market with a built-in light. it is the news did it. the nook can now be pre order of the barnes and noble web site and hits the market in early may. >>darya: that solves the problem of reading, but what about the television? people in the bay area love their e-book, that many people still want a paper. ahoy 5000 californians were interviewed about reading habits. canada the need to for some of the leaders have abandoned its tradition of the tariffs even though people have the e-reader they still use traditional books. 86 percent say they split their time between e

it was built between 1889 and 1892. this was the first real mansion on bellview avenue in newport, rhode island. and it was built by richard morris hunt the architect, the same architect who built the breakers several years later. he was the most prestigious, well-recognized, well-respected architect really in the world. he had studied at the ecol ecole de bosart in paris, the first american to do so, and he was much sought after. this house was built really by alva vanderbilt with richard morris hunt. it was a 39th birthday present from her husband william to her, and alva was a great francophile. she lived in paris right during the civil war. she came from mobile, alabama. and living in paris she became quite the frank francophile and quite informed about french art and architect yue. so she had a very strong hand in what this building was going to look like and how it was is going to be decorated and it's very much in the french style, designed to look like a facsimile of the petit trianon. and we'll see in a minute

once the visibility is impacted, it makes the project not built it all. if the project is not built, it means it is not contributing to in the fees or affordable housing creation. by continuing to defer the fees, it reduces the caring -- carrying costs. when more market rate housing is created, it contributes to the creation of affordable housing through fees or through on-site inclusion. i would like to mention a project we are looking at. it is in the market oktibbeha plan. our total impact and in lieu fees on that is $20 million. that is $61,000 of added costs. that makes housing more affordable. if -- that is $5 million of added costs. over an 18-month duration. the costs equates to $13,000 of additional cost per unit. if you look at read, that is $780 additional rent every year that their methods -- rent would have to create. >> what other projects are there? >> there are others that are in the free development stages. some in the civic center area. >> supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. we are a developer and owner and operat

the building is built as a palace. not for a king or queen. it's built for all people.building is beautiful art. those are architecture at the time when city hall was built, san francisco had an enormous french population. therefore building a palace in the art tradition is not unusual. >> jimmie was an incredible individual he knew that san francisco had to regain it's place in the world. he decided to have the tallest dome built in the united states. it's now stands 307 feet 6 inches from the ground 40 feet taller than the united states capital. >> you could spend days going around the building and finding something new. the embellishment, the carvings, it represents commerce, navigation, all of the things that san francisco is famous for. >> the wood you see in the board of supervisor's chambers is oak and all hand carved on site. interesting thing about the oak is there isn't anymore in the entire world. the floors in china was cleard and never replanted. if you look up at the seceiling you would believe that's hand kof carved out of wood and it is a cast plaster se

the keys have built-in sensors. the car knows when the keys are in range. you have to have the keys on your body or in your purse for this to work. we're seeing this with gaming, and now it's making a baby step into cars. i think we will be seeing more of this kind of thing in the near future. >>> taking a live look outside, we are seeing clouds on the coastline, but clear skies for the valleys. the inland valleys will be in the mid-40s to start the day. into the afternoon, mostly sunny skies, warmer temperature, especially away from the coastline. minimal coastal fog returning for wednesday evening, but sunny skies on tap later this week. not a huge fan of the fog tracker for tomorrow morning. it does pull fog into the north bay by 9:00, and fill it along the north bay coastline for the afternoon. but it's already foggy in half moon bay, and along the san mateo coastline, it's going to stay that way spilling into our bay shores briefly if for tomorrow. let's get a look at our temperatures for tomorrow afternoon. warmer away from the coastline. 74 in ant --

. >> grand central was built because there was a new technology in the mid-1800s, which was trains. [ whistle blows ] and it was rapidly replacing the earlier modes of transportation. in order to understand theation. importance of grand central, you have to understand the importance of the railroads to the united states and to the world at that time. before the railroads came along, the only way to get across the country or from any point was either by horse-and-carriage or by canal, which was very slow. the railroads revolutionized the ability to move quickly across the country, and they became an extraordinarily powerful business. >> so powerful, in fact, that in 1947, over 65 million people -- the equivalent of almost half our nation's population at the time -- passed through grand central in just one year. that gave birth to a popular saying in the 1940s -- "busier than grand central station." except, that name is not quite correct. >> the real name of this building is grand central terminal, and the reason for that is that the trains terminate here. >> of course, trains also orig

and what has fascinated me is when it was built, the people who built it were very, very skilled tradesmen, and they built it in a communal type way, so that each family who came helped everyone build the homes, and then when that house was completed, they went on and built another, and the houses were very well built, and are- it's a wonderful place to visit, to see history very much alive. >> you know, you're so right, and you're hitting very close to home, because my 11-year-old daughter lilly's fifth-grade class went to nauvoo, and being a good parent, i chaperoned along, so i was just there a couple weeks ago, and you're so right about the zeal. and it brings up this fascinating question, we talked about it with myth: did joseph smith actually find plates revealed to him by a divine personage that revealed a new book and this plan? well, people are going to argue back and forth, and if you go to nauvoo, as you well know, you're going to find the established christians in town, signs everywhere saying, "this is not true. don't believe in mormons," all of this. but it's belief and behav

within this broad architecture of enslavement, buildings like these pictured purpose built to provide living and in some cases working spaces for enslaved people and distinct from the property owner's residence are particularly illuminating. now, to be sure, these were not the only spaces in which enslaved people were forced to live. but such structures were constructed in all the environments where slavery existed. here you see examples moving from rural to urban, left to right, from plantations, small farms and small towns, and in cities. and they reflected the spatial constraints or lack thereof, construction techniques, and to some degree the architectural styles of the places in which they were built. they also illustrate differing proximities between enslaver and enslaved, and they testify to the active use of architectural hierarchy to reinforce the condition of bondage. and, i would argue, that such buildings are not only significant but also sacred, because they offer some of the only spaces in which people denied their very humanity maintained any semblance of a private life

this one was built in sturbridge. by the time you show it, it's built up and a new of new england town, most, in fact, end up developing a common. usually when they lay out the towns they leave a little bit of land in the center of town for town business, for training the militia, unpaid, uninformed predecessors of the national guard. that sort of central commonly owned area sort of becomes a park eventually in a lot of towns. some towns it just gets gobbled up. in a lot of towns it remains today when you go out to the new england countryside. with houses and craft shops and stores around it. the tin shop we put here in 1985. this building actually had a family history of being used by a metalworker in the 19th century. we demonstrate the trade of tinning, which was one of the things that central new england, where we are, was known for in the 19th century. not every town had a tinner, but a lot of towns did. >> the small holes are made with this punch and the longer holes are made with this one. because we've done th

there was a two-unit building where a tax was built -- a deck was built without a permit to be used as a recreational deck, but on the building plans that were approved by the department of building inspection, there were the -- there was the deck shown. the railings on the plan around the surface of this roof deck -- there was a staircase to get up to this, but there was no -- so we had a problem because the building inspection that was done for the sale of the property by the buyer indicated that, well, this cannot be permitted roof deck. in digging around a little bit more, we found that to be true. this is a two-unit building that the buyer intended to apply for a condominium conversion that some point in the near future. that was a big deal for them. what they found out in their search was they would have to remove what was there or find a way to add a second means of egress. that was a $10,000 problem. >> i think any to chip in your. things have changed about second means of redress for homes. only one exit is required for each unit. this created that. >> we go back to their unit

truman took $16,000 and built the balcony. truman insisted that he would like to improve the architecture of the building. a new white house was built inside of them. those floors lincoln had tried went to landfill. he deeply believed that the president should remain in the white house. when the work was finished, he ordered that the room that lincoln's office had been in be used. truman was loyal to those walls. he was walking around with hershey one day and they were about to chip a window and carry in a bull doze ser and a dump truck. and he said stop. he insisted that those be taken down. they were taken down and rebuilt and dug with cellars. he was serious about those walls. i have studied and written about the winehouse for years. i concluded that what you would want from me is details about the white house. that is what i want to do this morning. i will talk about the use of rooms and most of all i can depart to you some feeling of what the white house was like when lincolnp lives there. i won't apologize after all, the

sometimes they are 3-story dwellings built up into the cracks. they are buildings that they made in the 11th century ad, that the anastasi, the pueblo people made, that a base 5 stories tall. they built at least 400 miles of roads are documented in the four corners area. when i'm saying roads, i'm saying swaugts cut across the desert that are 30 feet wide that have berms about this high on both sides and run absolutely straight. and if they hit a landmark of some sort, they don't around it, they go up and over it or they go down a cliff and when you are on one of these roads and you get to the edge of a cliff, you can see that it's easier to go down maybe 20 feet over to your left, but they go right down the cliff. and you look down the cliff and there are stairs carved into the cliff face so that this road stays absolutely straight. my take on this is that out in the desert, the ultimate commodity besides water is visibility. and if you set a line across the desert, you are going to see it from everywhere. every butte top, you are going it look

when this college was built, it was not built because of the city. it was built because of the fact that there was going to be an extension of the sewage plant and there were three of us that matt and met for five years. they wanted to put a part here. we wanted a college. the classes were closed. we want you all to really support the staff recommendation. this is not supposed to be an office for city department. [applause] >> we are on the same page. to have this energy, i am raising the young people. this is on the cutting age and power and water in this country. our children can be on the cutting edge. this is the opportunity we have, this is surrounded by water on three sides. let's let our children know about it. water is not going away. our kids will have to be aware of what is going on in the world. they have a curriculum right here that they are developing so that our kids can know about water and power. this is fantastic. i'm glad to see that you are on the right track. this is the mission of our city and for our children to participate in w

when they built it in the 1960s, they built this wonderful grand ballroom and for the vips they wanted the secure entrance so they built it here for ease of access to the limousines. what is interesting is that you will look up here and see the driveway and the curving driveway and the architects did not consult the secret service on building the entrance, so they realized the secret service if they came up here and stopped here and kept driving up and left the limo for the president to come in and go, the limousine would get stuck in the curving, because it was hulking and also a police car always stationed there to prevent people from coming down. so if the cop didn't get the car start and they stalled out back then, they could not get away and trapped up there in an attack. so what they would do is to leave the president here, and back the limousine around and back it up and park it here. now, this sidewalk is smaller than it was then, but right about where the curve is they would back the limousine out here, and this is faced out to "t" street. the limousine is facing this way. wha